Reply #10: This article is a lie. This isn't what we had 18 years ago and that [View All]

they lied about, this is what we had in the 1970s when there were still a few news departments with the guts to tell us the truth. Of course, back then they blamed unions and high wages for inflation instead of OPEC and the skyrocketing cost of oil, but the cause and the effect were identical.

Today it's not OPEC, it's the hedge funds gaming commodities, aided by a lunatic administration threatening chaos in another oil producing country. Still, it's cartels of unimaginably rich men getting together and artificially pumping up the cost of necessary things in order to make even more obscene wealth off human suffering.

We're having to make a few hard choices--bag lunches instead of fast food, for instance--but the world's poor are watching their kids starve because of these rich men, feeding them dirt pies in Haiti and who knows what in other parts of the third world.

When are we going to end the idolatry of the opulent, to realize they are the absolute worst among us, and make sure their kind of machination is regulated out of existence once again?